Poems about Humor

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Sam Goes To It

Sam Small had retired from the Army,
In the old Duke of Wellington's time,

by Marriott Edgar 78 lines, 1 comment
William Rufus

The reign of King William the Second
Were an uninteresting affair

by Marriott Edgar 78 lines
Mother's Glasses

I've told about the times that Ma can't find her pocketbook,
And how we have to hustle round for it to help her look,

by Edgar Albert Guest 26 lines
A Woman's Reason

I'm Sure every Word that you say is Absurd;
I Say it's All Gummidge and Twaddle;

by Gelett Burgess 3 lines
Lament Of A Desert Rat

I've learnt to wash in petrol tins, and shave myself in tea
Whilst balancing the fragments of a mirror on my knee

by N.J. Trapnell 15 lines, 1 comment
The Pig and the Rooster

On a warm sunny day, in the midst of July,
A lazy young pig lay stretched out in his sty,

by Clement Clarke Moore 91 lines, 1 comment
The Wreck of the 'Thomas Dryden' in Pentland Firth

As I stood upon the sandy beach
One morn near Pentland Ferry,

by William Topaz McGonagall 58 lines
My Umbrella

"Valued companion of my expeditions,
Wanderings, and my street perambulations,

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 33 lines, 4 comments
The Figurehead

In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show —
Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row

by Cicely Fox Smith 79 lines
Young Greedyguts

Cap of silk moiré, little wand of ivory,
Clothes very dark.

by Arthur Rimbaud 27 lines
Analysis Of Baseball

It’s about
the ball,

by May Swenson 63 lines
Animal House

In Animal House (by which title I call
A dwelling whose true name is not that at all)

by Cicely Fox Smith 26 lines, 2 comments
The Rhyme Of The Kipperling

Away by the haunts of the Yang-tse-boo,
Where the Yuletide runs cold gin,

by Sir Owen Seaman 87 lines, 1 comment
Shonny Schwartz

Haf you seen mine leedle Shonny,--

by Charles Follen Adams 47 lines
The Three Foot Rule

When I was bound apprentice, and learned to use my hands,
Folk never talked of measures that came from foreign lands:

by William John Macquorn Rankine 13 lines, 1 comment
The Misanthrope

I think some spiteful fairy
My natal day did grace

by Cicely Fox Smith 43 lines, 1 comment
Les Champignons (Conversation Exercise)

Let us go now and seek mushrooms
For supper. Stewed with milk

by Cicely Fox Smith 40 lines, 1 comment
The Black Tracker (Or: Why He Lost The Track)

THERE was a tracker in the force
Of wondrous sight (the story ran):—

by Henry Lawson 33 lines
A Lament

It induces a sensation
Of irritation

by Cicely Fox Smith 21 lines
Sailor, Sailor —

“Sailor, Sailor, why did you go —
Why did you go for a sailor?

by Cicely Fox Smith 46 lines
Post-War Plans

“When this ‘ere war’s finished,” Bill said,
“If we ain’t all dead,

by Cicely Fox Smith 14 lines
Getting Off

I have taken to cycling again after a lapse of a generation,
How long I hardly care to tell,

by Cicely Fox Smith 26 lines, 1 comment
A Song Of A Heart

Upon a time I had a Heart,
And it was bright and gay;

by Oliver Herford 13 lines, 1 comment
Smith-With-A-Hi

Signing on in the Emerald Isle
Up comes a bloke in shellback style,

by Cicely Fox Smith 32 lines
Thoughts In A Garden

Why, where erstwhile I sowed my choicest seeds,
Come up but weeds?

by Cicely Fox Smith 27 lines
A Complaint

Why — can anybody say? —
Has upon my natal day

by Cicely Fox Smith 24 lines
Man May Be Happy

"Man may be happy, if he will:"
I've said it often, and I think so still;

by John Wolcot 45 lines
Departure

When I was a lad
No more than a nipper

by Cicely Fox Smith 47 lines
Winter Pleasures

I hate
To skate.

by Cicely Fox Smith 22 lines
Dogs

Spaniels are all very well,
But they smell.

by Cicely Fox Smith 32 lines

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